Outside the Beltway

More proportional than the GOP, but perhaps not as proportional as one might think.

Republicans have spent the past week putting as much distance as they can between themselves and the latest round of radical anti-abortion laws.

An investigation has found that a doctor linked to Ohio State’s wrestling program abused more than 170 students during his time at the school.

Yet another candidate joins an already crowded field for the 2020 Democratic Presidential nomination.

More good news for Joe Biden, this time out of South Carolina.

Beto is fading.

The President’s eldest son has been subpoenaed to appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee regarding Trump campaign contacts with Russia.

In a first of its kind move, voters in Denver have voted to decriminalize psychedelic mushrooms.

The New York Times has obtained about ten years worth of Donald Trump’s tax returns from the late eighties to early nineties. They don’t tell us much that we didn’t already know.

Donald Trump’s tariffs are hurting the American economy, American consumers, and American businesses.

California is the latest state to try to force all Presidential candidates, including the President, to release their tax returns as a condition for getting on the ballot. It’s not at all clear that this is permitted under the Constitution.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell declared “case closed” on the Mueller Report and the Russia investigation. This is far from the truth.

Recent poll numbers suggest that the President is vulnerable in the part of the country that assured his Electoral College victory in 2020, but Democrats are going to have to work hard to flip these states.

The Treasury Secretary is declining to comply with a Congressional request for the President’s tax returns. Whether this is proper is a question that will have to be resolved by the courts.

Republicans have aborted President Trump’s lofty plan for a $2 trillion infrastructure deal just days after it was conceived.

Did I leave the Republican Party or did it leave me? Both.

Six Democrats are boycotting on principle. Four Republicans don’t care.

There’s some very good news for Joe Biden in the first polls taken after he entered the Presidential race.

A Federal Appeals Court recently found that chalking the tires of a car parked in a public place is a violation of the Fourth Amendment. It’s not at all clear that this decision is correct.

Democratic House members are finding that their constituents aren’t quite as eager for impeachment as some party activists are.

Ballot measures across the country would deny access to those who refuse to release tax returns.

One opinion writer says that Senator Kamala Harris should be disqualified as a Democratic candidate because she owns a handgun.

A novel argument, untested in court, suggests that it might.

Some vaccines lose effectiveness more quickly–and others last much longer—than previously understood.

He’s tan. He’s rested. He’s ready. But is the Democratic Party going to buy what Joe Biden is selling?

The House of Representatives is asking a Federal Judge to block the President’s emergency declaration to fund his border wall.

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority appears poised to uphold the inclusion of a citizenship question on the 2020 Census.

President Trump has not surprisingly vetoed a Congressional resolution to limit American support for the Saudi war on Yemen. His defense for doing so is utterly absurd.

US higher education is made up of far more than just the Ivies and other elite schools.

It’s still early in the 2020 cycle, but Democratic candidate are finding rally attendees focused on one thing. Beating Donald Trump.

Stephen Miller and others wanted to punish Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats by dumping detained migrants in their districts.

Per-student investment in public colleges has not recovered from the Great Recession.

Are people fleeing blue states to avoid repressive taxes? It depends who you’re asking.

California Governor Gavin Newsome may have put the issue front and center for 2020.

A lesson from Puerto Rico and further reasons why the EC is a problem.

The legendary figure was in charge of strategic forecasting at the Pentagon for decades.

It’s the battleground states that are the issue, not small states v. large states.

The consolidation of Super Tuesday makes the current system even more broken than before.

Labor law has not kept up with our changing economy.

Some basics on the US party system.

Actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman are the most famous of dozens of rich folks trying to get their kids into elite schools.

It’s that time of year again, and once again people are asking if it isn’t time to drop the whole ritual of changing time every six months altogether.

It’s been a rough two years under Trump, but America’s institutions are surviving.

I was wr-r-r-r-r-ong.

A second Federal Judge has found that the Commerce Department violated the law when it moved to put a question about citizenship on the 2020 Census form.

Democratic candidates for President are quickly voicing support for marijuana legalization.

A decade-long study once again establishes that there is no link between childhood vaccination and autism.

For the fourth time since the 2008 election cycle, Michael Bloomberg flirted with the idea of running for President. For the fourth time, he declined to do so.

Former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper is the latest entrant into an already crowded Democratic field.

Last week, the House passed two bills to strengthen the laws regarding background checks for guns, but they’re not likely to even make it to the floor of the Senate.